Youth Religious Education
Planning Workshop
January 8, 025
The Need to Diagnose Issues of Youth
• Cognitive, social and moral dimensions
• Issues of meaning
• Issues of identity
• Ethical issues
• Human relationships
• Problems of career
Needs of the Youth
Secular needs
Spiritual yearning
Search for meaning, purpose
Looking for Security
Looking at world very idealistically (they want to sing,
play music, paint and find various channels for artistic
expressions)
Yearning to express spiritual impulse
Needs of the Youth
• Multi-dimensional Issues
• Issues of loneliness, emotional pain, stress
• Inter institutional interaction and efforts
• ITREB could provide spiritual dimension
YCF Stakeholder Institutions
• Faith • Creative self • Career and • Healthy
identity and expressions skills habits and
practice development life skills
ITREB YSB EB HB
Challenges/Emerging Issues
General Challenges Specific Challenges
• Ethics, • Huge Youth Population
• Integration, • Challenges of Social
• Understanding, Media
practice & articulation • Drugs
of faith • Sharia related questions
• Identification with the • Hostel based Students
Ummah • Conversions
• Plurality of the Ismaili • Disengagement
traditions
Target
1. Around 40,000 Youth will be accessed through different programmatic
interventions in 2025.
2. Address issues of radicalism through 16 YARC initiatives covering 1600
Jamati member including youth
3. Development of Youth study circles to engage them in all regions (at least
one in each local board) covering
4. M&E will become part and parcel of the programs.
5. 29 QUEST Youth Camps, by covering 1335 youth
6. 26 Hard to Access, by covering 1160 youth
7. 65 Agahi Programs for 3930 youth
Target
1. 103 youth seminars and workshops by covering 5160 youth
2. 701 “No Cost High Impact” Programmes covering 23315
3. MNY Camp covering 50 youth from across the country in 2025
4. 8 SEDP AYCs camps covering 200 youth
5. 12 Monthly Youth Lecture Series (Online) covering 4800 youth
6. Area level reunion of MNYC and YLD alumni covering 300
7. Develop and implement participants’ tracking mechanism/MIS
8. Develop monitoring system for low -cost no cost programmes
9. Sample based audit of low -cost no cost programmes
10.12 Programmes for Hostel Based Students through YCF Platform covering 1200 youth
11.Developing data base of MNYC graduates
Key Programmes for Youth RE
• Focused Interventions • General programme to
Misbah National Youth Camp enhance youth
QUEST Youth Camps engagement
Agahi Program for Jamat Youth Series (YLS)
RE Programme for Hard to
Youth workshops
Access Youth
AGAHI Youth Camps for SEDP Youth Seminars
Valleys No Cost High Impact
YARC Programme
Hostel Based Youth youth Lecture
Programmes Planned for 2025 (Around 40,000 Coverage)
Programme No of Program Targeted Coverage Calendar Month
MNYC 01 50 Planned in August
AGAHI Youth Camps for SEDP Valleys 08 200 Aug/Sep
QUEST Youth Camps 29 1335 May-October
QUEST Hard to Access 26 1160 May-October
AGAHI Program for Jamat 65 3930 Feb-November
YARC Programme 16 1600 Feb-November
Youth Workshop/Seminars 103 5160 Feb-December
Youth Lecture Series (Online) 12 4800 March-October
Hostel Based Youth Programmes 12 1200 March-December
No/Low Cost High Impact Programme 701 23315 January-December
Reunion of MNYC Graduates (Area-wise) 03 300 July/August
Themes
1. Evolution of religious thought in Islam
2. The plurality of meaning and diversity of Quranic interpretations
3. Imamat in the context of leadership in Islam
4. Key junctures in Ismaili History
5. Media literacy
6. Environmental literacy
7. Mindfulness and emotional intelligence
Themes for MNYC 2024
Understanding Ismaili Tariqah
Fostering Mental Well-being and
1. Ismaili Muslim Identity
Resilience
2. Centrality of Imamat
Understanding Financial Literacy
3. Our Position on Quran, Hadith, Fiqh and Sharia
and Economic Development
4. Key Perspectives in Understanding Islam
Field trips to historical sites
(Arkaan: Salat,Saum, Hajj, Zakat)
Penal Discussion (Kachehri)
Situating Ismaili Tariqah in Contemporary
Muslim Context
Cultural expression, creative self-
expression, devotional night
Perspectives on Faith and Practice
Themes for YARC Programme
S.No. Themes Duration
1 Fundamental principles and its diverse interpretations 6 hours
2 Understanding Quran and diversity of interpretations 6 hours
3 Evolution of religious thought in Islam 6 hours
4 Introduction to Sharia, Fiqa and Ethics – diversity of interpretations 6 hours
5 Imamat in the context of leadership in Islam 6 hours
6 Key junctures in Ismaili History 6 hours
7 Introduction to Ismaili community traditions and practices 6 hours
8 Introduction to vision of Mowlana Hazir Iman and Imamat institutions 6 hours
9 Media literacy- understanding and engaging with religious trends in Pakistan 3 hours
10 Environmental literacy- sustainability and human development 3 hours
11 Emotional intelligence and wellbeing – A pathway to mental health 3 hours
12 Science, society and religion 3 hours
13 Qasida Khawani and meditation- pretext of Baitul Khayal 3 hours
14 Recitation practice of dua, Namaz-e-Jinaza, and Eid Namaz 6 hours
General Observations
• Programs should be as per approved PHBs (inclusion of
extra topics)
• Proper marketing to avoid repetition of participants
• Youth wants interactive and activity-based sessions
• Interested in secular topics
• M&E
Calendar 2025 for HO Youth Programs
Programs Jan Feb March April May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
MNYC 3rd week
AYCs for 2nd, 3rd
and 4th
SEDP
Valleys week
Programs 4th Week 3rd week 1st week 2nd & 3rd 2nd & 3rd 2nd Week 2nd Week
Islamabad Gilgit & Peshawar week week Karachi Islamabad
for Hostel Hunza and Chitral Lahore Islamabad
Based and
Islamabad
Youth
Youth Last Last Last Last Last Friday Last Last Last Last Last Last
Friday of Friday of Friday of Friday of of each Friday of Friday of Friday of Friday of Friday of Friday of
Lecture each each each each Month each each each each each each
Series Month Month Month Month Month Month Month Month Month Month
(Online)
MNYC 1st
Alumni Week
Reunions
Thanks
